AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 XT and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 20% (2970MHz vs 2475MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 480.0GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
1792 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 304W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+66%
48.66 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
29.15 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Aug 2024
Navi IV
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1660 MHz
Base Clock
1920 MHz
2970 MHz
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
644.6GB/s
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
46
4096
Shading Units
5888
256
TMUs
184
128
ROPs
64
128
Tensor Cores
184
64
RT Cores
46
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
36 MB
64 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
380.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
760.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
97.32 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
48.66 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
1.521 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
304W
TDP
200W
700 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 48
GPU Name
AD104
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600315)
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
53.9 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
357 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
6.8
Shader Model
6.8
